Thursday, June 11, 2020

Putin’s Constitutional Game Inserts a Mine under Him and His System, ‘Forbidden Opinion’ Telegram Channel Says


Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 8 – Vladimir Putin will get one way or another the immediate result from the July 1 constitutional amendment referendum that he wants; but in so do, he will be placing an unexploded mine under both him and his system that will go off after he leaves, the Forbidden Opinion telegram channel says.

            “Hypothetically,” it continues, “now any state turnover – and it is unimportant whether it is a palace coup at the top or a broader one – will delegitimize Putin’s presidency (including his current one) by declaring his actions anti-constitutional (and they really are) and therefore his presidency illegal” (t.me/TheForbiddenOpinion/5000).

            But even more than that, the telegram channel says, “any new power as a result of the political tasks standing before it may now declare the existing Constitution inoperable, including the Constitutional Court which supposedly cannot be disbanded by declaring it a co-conspirator in a state crime and therefore forcibly dissolve it.”

            “In order to ‘remove’ Putin from history, it will be sufficient to view his anti-constitutional coup as a crime – and that is what it really is,” the Forbidden Opinion says; and consequently, by seeking these changes, “Putin has himself in fact laid under the era of his presidency a mine which deprives him of his legal standing.”

            But even more, the telegram channel says, what Putin is doing has put all other parts of his state machine at risk of the same kind of zeroing out and left them “’hanging in the air’” with the very real possibility that they too will lose all legitimacy when Putin leaves office one way or another.   

            Putin, who prides himself on being a chess player capable of planning many moves ahead, by pursuing rule for life has created a situation which puts his desires on a collision course with the obvious legal steps that his successors will take.  That is an unexploded mine that will go off, annulling not just Putin but his system historically.

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